Toinette, a confidential female servant of Argan, the malade imaginaire. “Adroite, soigneuse, diligente, et surtout fidèle,” but contractious, and always calling into action her master’s irritable temper. In order to cure him, she pretends to be a travelling physician of about 90 years of age, although she has not seen twenty-six summers; and in the capacity of a Galen, declares M. Argan is suffering from lungs, recommends that one arm should be cut off, and one eye taken out to strengthen the remaining one. She enters into a plot to open the eyes of Argan to the real affection of Angelique (his daughter), the false love of her stepmother, and to marry the former to Cléante, the man of her choice, in all which schemes she is fully successful.--Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire (1673).
Toison d’Or, chief herald of Burgundy.--Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward, and Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).
Toki, the Danish William Tell. Saxo Grammaticus, a Danish writer of the twelfth century, tells us that Toki once boasted, in the hearing of Harald Bluetooth, that he could hit an apple with his arrow off a pole; and the Danish Gessler set him to try his skill by placing an apple on the head of the archer’s son (twelfth century).
Tolande of Anjou, a daughter of old King Réné of Provence, and sister of Margaret of Anjou (wife of Henry VI. of England).--Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).
Tolbooth (The), the principal prison of Edinburgh.
The Tolbooth felt defrauded of his charms
If Jeffrey died, except within her arms.
Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).
Lord Byron refers to the “duel” between Francis Jeffrey, editor of the Edinburgh Review, and Thomas Moore, the poet, at Chalk Farm, in 1806. The duel was interrupted, and it was then found that neither of the pistols contained a bullet.
Can none remember the eventful day,